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They exist. Inform yourself on the Internet Research Agency, one of Russia's state sponsored troll farms. A handful of their activities are well documented in factual records. 'Dems' weren't crying about it, every rational person who doesn't want foreign interference and disinformation flooding our spaces is concerned about it. This should not be a partisan issue whatsoever.
Yeah, I don't even really have a problem with RT, as long as it's labeled so that people understand that it's the Russian state speaking. But a lot of forums rely more-or-less on the idea that people are more-or-less good faith actors. Very large scale efforts to have people pretend to be someone else and make non-good-faith arguments is something that I think that a lot of our forums can't today handle well.
Arguably, that's a technical problem that needs to be fixed in some way.